Check out all the LOOTED TAX DOUGH you have LOST to the cause of TRYANNY!
"Much of the spending in prisons stems from high facility and labor costs.... Massachusetts prisons had the second-highest ratio of staff to inmates in the country, and that the correction officers were the third-highest paid"
And yet that rapist escapes from Bridgewater?
Related: State Government On Probation
This might wrap up the series for now.
"Correction agencies’ budgets soaring; Exceeds most other Mass. offices, study says" by Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | December 3, 2009
Spending on correction agencies in Massachusetts has exploded in the past decade despite only a modest increase in the number of people incarcerated and now accounts for a bigger chunk of the state budget than each of the departments that oversee higher education, social services, and public health, according to a new study....
In Massachushitts?
Spending on prisons, jails, probation, and parole exceeds every form of state spending this year except money funneled to public elementary and secondary schools and to communities as local aid, according to the 33-page study, which will be made public today....
Even during the recession this year - when the state has slashed what it spends on local aid, higher education, and public health - correction funding has largely been spared.
Sig Heil, Massachusetts! How EMBARRASSING and SAD for you!!!
“Rising corrections costs might be acceptable if public safety is improved, if the corrections system is run efficiently and transparently, and if recidivism is reduced,’’ the report says. “Growing corrections budgets would probably be acceptable if the prison population grew substantially in response to higher crime rates. Yet none of these are what drove the growth of the corrections budget over the past 10 years.’’
So WHERE DID ALL the $$$ GO? I'll bet I KNOW!!!
Indeed, the number of people incarcerated has largely leveled off after skyrocketing in the 1980s and early 1990s, the researchers found, and the rate of freed prisoners committing new crimes has barely changed. Massachusetts, the study says, has hewed to a philosophy of “safety at any price,’’ even though the financially strapped state can no longer afford it and the spending has made little difference.
Yeah, because it was LIKELY STOLEN!!
The study could be influential in shaping next year’s budget debate. Recent studies by the Boston Foundation put a spotlight on other criminal justice issues, including proposals to loosen the criminal offender record information system, or CORI, to make it easier for former prison convicts to get jobs....
Ooooooh, an agenda-pushing study for an agenda-pushing paper!!!
Massachusetts, the report says, should follow the lead of other cash-starved states that have recently cut unsustainable correction spending and reduced recidivism rates through various reforms.
Say what?
See: Massachusetts Points the Way on Prisons
What do you mean we are BEHIND EVERYONE?
We are MASSACHUSETTS!!!
You know, the LEADERS of the GAY MARRIAGE and the LESBIAN CAPITAL of the WORLD!!!!!
The PROGRESSIVE LIBERALS showing everyone else how to do it!
Those changes include making more nonviolent prisoners eligible for supervised parole, shortening sentences for offenders who complete education and substance abuse programs, and eliminating certain mandatory minimum drug sentences.
“This is happening across the country, and we just seem stuck,’’ Leonard W. Engel, senior policy analyst for the Crime and Justice Institute and author of the report commissioned by the Boston Foundation, said in an interview. The Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, which oversees the prisons and parole board, declined to comment on the study until it is made public.... Legislative leaders said they wanted to see the report before commenting.
I'm not interested in what they have to say.
Michael J. Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, said the report shows that a trend his foundation observed six years ago has continued despite deep cuts to other state programs. In a 2003 study, Widmer’s foundation said spending on prisons and jails would surpass spending on higher education the following year, the first time that had happened in decades. “We keep investing more and more in corrections, which at the same time is crowding out spending on other important priorities, like a whole range of human services,’’ Widmer said yesterday.
Among many other things: State Shuts Down For Year
See where your tax dough is going?
Massachusetts is one of many states that adopted a tough-on-crime approach beginning in the 1980s, partly in response to emotional reactions to high-profile crimes and because of a “lack of political will to challenge soft-on-crime demagoguery,’’ the study says. That tack caused prison populations across the country to skyrocket and state budgets to balloon....
The PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX as it was MEANT TO BE CONSTRUCTED!
In the past decade, though, the number of people incarcerated in the state has risen by about 5 percent. Budgets, however, have continued to mushroom. The growth, the researchers say, reflects a fact of life about most correction agencies nationwide: They get generous funding in good times and avoid deep cuts in bad times....
Yup, WARS, BANKS, and TYRANNY always are funded!
Engel said he contacted probation officials to find out why their budget soared but got few explanations, aside from the fact that the department’s caseload grew in 2004 when it began supervising low-risk offenders transferred from district court. “We kept running up against a lack of information,’’ Engel said.
From the STATE that is SERVING US?
The study says much of the spending in prisons stems from high facility and labor costs, and cites a controversial 2004 report commissioned by the Mitt Romney administration. That report found that Massachusetts prisons had the second-highest ratio of staff to inmates in the country, and that the correction officers were the third-highest paid.
It also found that staffing expenditures soared 56 percent from 1995 to 2003, to $312 million, and that much of the increase stemmed from overtime costs and a contract with the union that represents correction officers.
That's why the JAIL INFRASTRUCTURE has DETERIORATED!!
The LOOT was STOLEN, readers!!!
Steve Kenneway, president of the union that represents about 5,000 prison correction officers, said yesterday that spending on the prisons has risen dramatically, particularly in the past two years, but that it has nothing to do with pay to his members.
Oh, of course not.
Governor Patrick has signed two contracts that will give his members a 21 percent wage increase over nine years, Kenneway said. “That’s less than 3 percent’’ a year, he said. Kenneway said costs have spiraled because prisons are spending more to treat mentally ill inmates and are trying to address a recent surge in suicides.
Yeah, the POOR PRISON GUARDS, huh?
Gimme a break!
See: The State of Massachusetts is Mentally Ill
Yeah, they DON'T HAVE MONEY to keep people from being TORTURED but they have PLENTY for TOP-HEAVY FASCIST OVERSEERS!!!
He also said that the past two governors have coddled inmates.
As opposed to the law-abiding citizen get raped by the state!
- Massachusetts Justice: Employing Perverts
- Massachusetts Justice: Bridgewater Breakout
- Massachusetts Justice: Thanksgiving Day Stuffing
- Massachusetts Justice: Wrongful Convictions
- Massachusetts Justice: Stay Off the Road
- Massachusetts Justice: The Dartmouth Death
- Massachusetts Justice: Complaint Office
- Massachusetts Justice: FBI Sweeps Up Stoughton
- Massachusetts Justice: Briefly Sweeping Boston
- Massachusetts Justice: Cop on the Beat
- Massachusetts Justice: The McGruff of Massachusetts
LESS LAWS!
Oh, they have MONEY FOR THAT, too?
